The German found himself stranded on the side of the track at Turn 10 when his car lost power during the first free practice session on Friday afternoon.
When the session was over he used a marshal’s scooter to ride back to the pits, with his helmet balanced on top of his head, which caught the attention of the stewards.
Despite arguing that he had been given permission by the marshal to use the scooter, stewards deemed Vettel to have re-entered the circuit without permission and slapped him with a €5000 fine.
That didn’t amuse the four-time world champion, who unloaded on the sanction following qualifying today.
“Joke,” he said when asked by Motorsport.com what he made of the sanction. “What do you think?
“It would be good to know what happens to that money. I think we are still not aware what happened to the $50,000 that Max or Lewis or one of them had to pay for touching a rear wing.”
Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin AMR22
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
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